Comment 0 for bug 1982351

As part of our entreprise desktop offering, there is the request to backport the adsys-windows binary package to 20.04 LTS and 22.04 LTS.

ADSys is our Active Directory GPO integration. It’s available starting Ubuntu 21.04.

adsys-windows contains Windows-specific files including a Windows executable (the Active Directory Watch Daemon), and XML files (ADMX/ADML) that are to be used solely on Windows.

The package is provided as a safe way for Windows administrators to source the required adsys files that are needed on Windows.

[Impact]

 * adsys-windows is a new binary package. Impact is thus only for people installing.
 * This is a entreprise feature requested by desktop customers running LTS.

[Test Plan]

Copy the adwatchd.exe executable on a Windows machine and run it:
1. set a path where the configuration file will be written
2. input a list of scripts directories to be watched

The executable will then install itself as a Windows Service and start monitoring the given directories for changes. Whenever it notices a change it will attempt to bump the version in the GPT.INI file at the root of the watched directory.

For more information refer to the documentation at: https://github.com/ubuntu/adsys/wiki/11.-Active-Directory-Watch-Daemon

[Where problems could occur]

* As this is a separate, versioned, new package, no impact on existing installations.
* Moreover the package has no files that are used in any way on Linux. It's just data to be copied on Windows machines.